"Photography is a very lonely medium. Thereâ€™s a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And thatâ€™s why Iâ€™m a photographer."

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Source : "Dismantling My Career: A Conversation with Alec Soth". Interview with Bartholomew Ryan, walkerart.org. August 31, 2010.

Alec Soth

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“When Courtney's mother and I first separated I tried to be Disney Dad, showering her with gifts, trips and then I snapped out of it. You don't have to try to impress your kids. If they're not getting what they need from you, they will let you know.”
“Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may veer off its course for many miles. Without a compass bearing, a ship would neither find its port nor be able to estimate the time required to get there.”
“Voices and movements approach loss and remembrance profoundly, making poetry of the mundane and seasoning it with wit.”
“The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.”
“Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.”

Source : George William Curtis (1852). “Lotus-eating: a Summer Book”, p.191
“A speech is like an airplane engine. It may sound like hell but you've got to go on.”
“It's obvious that there are vast variety of consequentialist views, depending on what we think goodness consists in, what our notion of consequence is, and what level (or levels) of human action we think the principle should be applied.”
“My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised I would get above myself.”

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